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August 25, 2008
Still recovering from The Stooges at Get Loaded on Clapham Common yesterday. I decided we should get there about 2.00 to avoid queueing which backfired a bit! Viv arrived with Kev about 1.30 [I think] and we called a cab which turned up after about 20 minutes and dropped us at the Windmill where we thought we'd have a quick drink at reasonable prices before we went in.
About ten minutes later we overhead someone mention the Soulwax were already on. As it seemed beyond the organisers abilities to publish any "on stage" times on their website [Wireless managed it] I took the running order to be as it was listed. Wrong! After about a 15 minute queue to get in and being mugged the usual £5.00 for a programme we located the Time Out tent [not where it was indicated on the programme]. We caught about the last ten minutes of their Nite Versions set which seemed to consist of them being augmented by a live drummer. But couldn't get into the tent so had to squint from the open sides. They were only allocated 50 minutes! In fact all of the sets were pretty short. Too many acts methinks.
So we wandered off to the main stage to see the The Hives who were pretty good given the time of day. It must be odd playing in daylight. Then we went back to the Time Out tent to see Mylo. Again pretty good although he seemed to insist on looping some tracks early on that made them sound like a CD skipping. We caught the end of Metronomy before Mylo came on as well... They were crap. We missed big chunks of Mylo's set by queueing ages for beer. £3.50 for a can of Carlsberg! Served up by women who who would have been more at home selling cakes at a village fete. Very poor. The rest of Mylo's set was accompanied by watching some dubious looking security guards randomly searching people for drugs. I assume they were official but they had no telephone numbers or anything other than a name and the word security on their shirts and ironically a couple of them had baseball caps on with ganja leaf motifs!. So that all went to a good home then. Most events I've been to at Clapham have had heavy handed security. There's no need. Amusingly a guy came up to us to ask if we saw what had happened to a couple of the blokes they had frisked. They had spotted the guards coming and given their stash to him and he wanted to give it back before he was picked on. As he had come over the fence he was doubly anxious!
The Gossip were awesome again, with their newly expanded line-up, and the tent was packed. They finished sharpish though as they were as keen to see the The Stooges as anyone else. So as soon as they heard they had started they did Standing In The Way Of Control and we all legged it to the other end of the field.
We managed to fight our way to middle of the crowd, but must have missed a few tunes although it was all get a bit hazy by then. There was a lot girlfriends on shoulders stuff going on in front of us so a group of us started pelting them with stuff till they got down. Childish I know but a laugh! Iggy is as lively as ever, for a 61 year old! I hadn't seen him for years and he was just as energetic. Fortunately he didn't show his arse this time, which isn't a pretty sight. The band were tight, the sound was good and we were all standing there in awe for a while just pointing and saying "It's the Stooges"!
Great day out apart form the beer prices and security. Needless to say we piled back to Kev & Karol's and drunk into the early hours. Hence the recovering... Off to the pub to watch Man Utd v Portsmouth in a mo though. Can't be any better than being at Fulham on Saturday to see Arsenal lose. Ha Ha Ha!
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